BEDC Faculty and Research
BEDC consists of a group of research faculty dedicated to the improving development of economically distressed/emerging communities in Washington and throughout the nation. This group implements programs, conducts research , and executes initiatives designed to accomplish the center’s goals.
 William D. Bradford - Professor of Finance, Endowed Professor of Business and Economic Development, BEDC Faculty Director
Bill has been at the University of Washington since 1994 where prior to his current position he served as Dean from 1994 to 1999. Bill’s research has focused on wealth creation, entrepreneurship, and economic development with an emphasis on minority-owned businesses. His most recent research has focused on venture capital firms. Prior to coming to the UW, Bill held various faculty positions at the University of Maryland, Stanford University and New York University. Bill received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
 Vandra Huber - Professor of Human Resource Management
Vandra specializes in compensation, employee stock ownership plans, incentives, performance management and productivity enhancement, and behavioral decision theory. She received the Fritz Roethesberger Award for significant impact on management education (1988) and she has consulted with Boeing and the AFL-CIO. Her research has appeared in Decision Sciences Journal and Personal Psychology. She currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management.
 Terrence Mitchell - Professor in Management and Organization, Professor of Psycholog, Edward E. Carlson Distinguished Professor in Business Administration
Terrence is the most prolific researcher at the Michael G. Foster School of Business and one of the most sited researchers in the nation. He specializes in motivation, leadership and decision making. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Accounting Review. He has been at the UW since 1969. He’s also been a visiting scholar at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; the University of Western Australia; and the University of Amsterdam. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
 Mark Forehand - Associate Professor of Marketing and International Business, Marqueite Reimer Endowed Research Fellow
Mark specializes in implicit cognition, consumer social identity, advertising response, and brand management. He has received numerous teaching and service awards while at the UW. His research has been published in the Journal of Marketing Research (What We See Makes Us Who We Are: Priming Ethnic Self-Awareness and Advertising Response) and the Journal of Consumer Research (Implicit Assimilation and Explicit Contrast: A Set/Reset Model of Response to Celebrity Voiceovers). Mark received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has been at the UW since 1997.
 Christina Ting Fong - Assistant Professor in Management and Organization
At the University of Washington since 2003, she received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her current research is on the effects of emotional ambivalence on creativity, performance consequences of mixed emotions at the individual and group level, the role of agents in negotiations, self enhancement in power and organizational politics.
 Detra Y. Montoya - Assistant Professor of Marketing
Detra specializes in multicultural marketing, product preferences, product systems, and retail shelf space strategies. At the University of Washington since 2006, she received her Ph.D. from Arizona State University. She was an AMA-Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow at the University of Connecticut in 2005, received the AMA Valuing Diversity Scholarship in 2004, and received the Center for Services Leadership Doctoral Student Research Award in 2003.
 Mina Yoo - Assistant Professor in Management and Organization
Mina specializes in entrepreneurship, social networks, power and politics, organizational demography and culture. Her current research is focused on the role of social networks on entrepreneurial performance with a focus on immigrant entrepreneurship. She received the Academy of Management and National Federation of Independent Business Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2004 and the Kauffman Emerging Scholars Initiative Award in 2002. She has been at the University of Washington since 2003 and she received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
 Yong-Pin Zhou - Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Yong-Pin specializes in service operations, supply chain management, and operations-marketing interface issues. His research has been published in leading journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Service & Operations Management, and Marketing Science. He has been at the University of Washington since 2000 and he received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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